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At least she had fun with the money
Angela Buckborough Platt was a bookkeeper with a Rehobeth, Massachusetts company, and I guess she wasn’t happy with her paltry $40,000 per year salary (understandable). So over a six-year span, she started embezzling money from the company, cutting checks to herself in amounts up to almost $50,000. In total, she managed a take of a whopping $6.9 million! But things came to an ugly end last summer when another bookkeeper discovered the funds funneling, and busted her.
So on Monday, Platt pled guilty to a felony count of interstate transportation of stolen property. As part of the plea, she has agreed to return all of the stolen money, and the prosecutors will recommend a sentence of at least 4 years and seven months in the clink (assuming she gets such a sentence, that’ll be less than half of the maximum 10 year sentence she could get for the crime). The sentencing is set to take place on May 8.
But Platt’s going to have to sell off quite a few things to come up with the $6.9 million she now owes. Check out the list of some of the shit she purchased with her winnings:
- A ranch in Vermont.
- A four-bedroom house in Rhode Island.
- Over 35 (!) vehicles.
- A model of an old Model T, customized to look like a green goblin (I don’t know if this is some old car type I’ve never heard of, or if she had it customized to look like Spiderman’s enemy, but I’m really hoping it’s the latter).
- A 20-foot tall smoke-puffing dragon.
- Six talking trees, modeled after “Wizard of Oz” characters.
- A private concert by Burt Bacharach.
- And my personal favorite, a life-size statue of Al Capone.
Comments
Damn girl! A half-dozen talking trees? Are you shitting me? I never thought of it before, but that IS what I'd spend my 6.9 million on. Talking trees. Yeah. That's messed up. I have to assume she was a total loner type that never invited anyone to her house because I'm pretty sure they would have noticed oh, maybe the TALKING TREES.
Also, considering the nature of her purchases, I would say it's safe to bet that car WAS modeled after everyone's favorite super villian.
Posted by malice Alice | February 15, 2007 10:08 PM